NEWS: Billion-pound lawsuit against Apple over App Store opens in UK

Billion-pound lawsuit against Apple over App Store opens in UK

Apple says the claim is ‘meritless’.
Photo: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP
Source: AFP

Did US tech giant Apple abuse the dominant position of its app store in the UK? A trial opening Monday in which plaintiffs want more than one billion pounds is set to answer that question.

The complaint, filed in May 2021, accuses Apple of breaching European and UK competition laws by “its exclusion of any other app stores from iOS devices” like iPhones and iPads.

It claims that some 20 million Apple users…

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